“Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.”
“I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.”
“If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.”
“Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.”
“[A] novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”
“Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.”