As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, “I did it, my sins sent him there, ” and “He did it, his love took him there.

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

All of Christ’s philosophical ideas can be compressed into one simple phrase – Love thy neighbor.

If you really want to buy greatness with time, you must invest the quality amount of time into your purpose and land of calling.

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.