In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

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.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.