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

Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.