“It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.”

“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 reasonable.”

“The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ.”

“If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.”

“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.”

“That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair?Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people.”

“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”