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

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

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

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.