We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.

Little is much, If love abides.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

People would more readily believe that the gospel is from heaven if they saw more such effects of it upon the hearts and lives of those who profess it. The world is perhaps better able to read the nature of religion in a man's life than in the Bible.

Mere obedience is far too often a detour around actual love. Obedience is usually about cleaning up, love is about waking up.

Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will get us all to our destination together in love.

Christianity is much more about living and doing than thinking.

The motivation for all morality and religion is the imitation of God, who is love. When religion bases itself in fear, duty, honor, a need for law and order, a need for a superior self-image, or group cohesiveness, it is corrupt. It looks good and will have many defenders, but it is actually at the heart of the problem. The real God is no longer needed or even wanted, and such religion usually becomes the actual enemy of God. The crucifixion of Jesus speaks to this.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.