If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.