To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

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.

Love is in the giver, not the gift.

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.