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

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

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.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

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.