The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

Saints cannot exist without a community

The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

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

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

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