"But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation."

"Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man."

"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."

"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."

"We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too."

"The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up."

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

"I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem."