We are to derive worth from God alone and to love without judgment and without conditions on the basis of the unsurpassable fullness of life we get from God. Our only job is to love, not judge.

Our call is to trust that the foolishness of self-sacrificial love will overcome evil in the end. Our call is to manifest the beauty of a Savior who loves indiscriminately while revolting against all hatred and violence. This is the humble mustard seed revolution that will in the end transform the world.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

When our theology gets in the way of loving our neighbors, it's time to rethink our theology.

Mother Teresa offers us that brilliant glimpse of hope that lies in little things: "We can do not great things, only small things with great love. It is not how much you do but how much love you put into doing it." Above our front door, we have hung a sign that says, "Today . . . small things with great love (or don't open the door).

But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.

love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings.

Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.