The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hate and blood and sin and murder and betrayal and forsakenness and unimaginable agony and death. It is...
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.
Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue...
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonab...
Love gives you eyes.
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.
If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: Behold, I make all things new. (Rev. 21:5) I hope you remember that most moving line in the most mov...
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