Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.