We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

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.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

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.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

Is this a kissing book?

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.