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A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesn't have of given birth to another human being.
To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.
Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.
Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
If you want to get wet, go out to where it is raining; If you want to be a saint, find one and hang out with him.
The secret of joy is hidden in the word itself: first J, then O, then Y: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last.
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.
The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.
The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
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.
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.
condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.
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.
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
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.
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
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.
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does