To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."