Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

A conversion is a lonely experience.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.