"Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked."
"The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son."
"Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am."We are ontological oxymorons."
"God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with."
"This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love."
"The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting."