Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

The way we are with each other is the truest test of our faith.

Your religion is where your love is.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

Love does not stay idle.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

True Christianity is love in action.

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.