Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.