Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.

Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust