In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

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.

Rain is just God weeping for Earth’s troubles.

But what I do know is this: you got to find your own places. The places you get, girl, the ones that stick in your heart. And if you’re lucky, you find people to share them with.

Trust is the first step to love.

Dreams are essential to life.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.