It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.

There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.