I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest, as happened in Germany, as well, as in compassionate care for the most vulnerable members of society, as Mother Teresa did. In both approaches theology - what one believes about God and human life - matters. The world desperately needs that good news.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.