Faith idles when character shrivels.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.

Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.

Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL!

Happy is he that chastens himself.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.