God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

It's important to note that Jesus and Christ are two different faith affirmations. Hardly any Christians have been taught that - they think "Christ" is Jesus's last name.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.