Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me".

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.

There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.