It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.