The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.