The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.