The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion