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

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.

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

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

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.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.