In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

The problem with Western Christians is not that they aren't where they should be but that they aren't what they should be where they are.