If sexuality is part of our inner essence, then it follows that there is sexuality in Heaven, whether or not we 'have sex' and whether or not we have sexually distinct social roles in Heaven.

On my door there's a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I'd like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it. 'The other turtle says, 'I'm afraid God might ask me the same question.

Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is ike trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

A fundamental principle of Catholic theology is that grace perfects nature rather than setting it aside; and that means that the Christian life is not a two-layer cake, the supernatural simply added on to the natural. It transforms the natural but by perfecting it, not by demeaning it.

But we will probably never see this, never move from original selfishness to universal charity and unselfishness, without the intermediate step of the family.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name “Jesus” means: ‘God saves’.

We want to complexify our lives. We don’t have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it.

What distinguishes the saved from the damned is their relation to Christ. This is not St. Thomas’ opinion, this is Christ’s own clear teaching. What.