The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.