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.

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

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.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

I can't look at everything hard enough!

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain.

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.

I felt need. It was you. I can never allow myself to need you. So, my only choice is to make you need me, because ridding myself of you is no longer an option.

I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Riley. How bad has it been?" "Just fabulous. The demonic kitten really made my night.

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.