Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

People think sometimes there is a 'Catholic vote' because of one particular issue. This demeans who we are as a Catholic community. We should take the whole thing... We take everything.

Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

I sneaked into an Everton match once. I'm a Liverpool supporter, but Liverpool were away, Liverpool reserves weren't playing, there wasn't even a youth match, so I took my son into an Everton match. God help me. It wasn't me.

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.