It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

Love is in the giver, not the gift.