Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.
The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.
Education brightens a darkened world.
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.
Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.