Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ