If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

He who has love in his heart has the universe in his hands.

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.

The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

It is a known fact that the emotion of LOVE is closely akin to the state of mind known as FAITH.

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.

The beginning of the fight against hatred, the basic Christian answer to hatred, is not the commandment to love, but what must necessarily come before in order to make the commandment bearable and comprehensible. It is a prior commandment, to believe. The root of Christian love is not the will to love, but the faith that one is loved. The faith that one is loved by God. That faith that one is loved by God although unworthy—or, rather, irrespective of one's worth!

I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.

We do not see God in contemplation - we know Him by love: for his pure love and when we taste the experience of loving God for his own sake alone, we know by experience who and what he is.

must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them.

For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.