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.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

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

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.