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

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.

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

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.

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.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Sometimes life takes you on a journey that changes everything you thought you wanted.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.

Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.

I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine.

All I ever had before you was nightmares. But now I dream. Because of you.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation.