So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.