The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

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.

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.

After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

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

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into Gods story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.