Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

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.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

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

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.