We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

We don't have to be brilliant.

Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.