Christ Himself has said: They are no longer two, but they are one flesh (Matt. 19:6). Is it strange then, if they are one flesh, that they should have one tongue and should say the same words, since they are one flesh, Head and body? Let us therefore hear them as one. But let us listen to the Head speaking as Head, and to the body speaking as the body. We do not separate the two realities, but two different dignities; for the Head saves, and the body is saved.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

Whenever they speak Michael Jordan, they should speak Scottie Pippen.

Our four defensemen all had flaws: one couldn't skate backwards, one couldn't turn to his left, one couldn't turn to his right, and the fourth couldn't pass the puck accurately to our blue line. Somebody had to clear the loose pucks, so I started doing it myself.

Every church, every team, every organization demands and deserves a "vision embodier," someone whose life values and commitments personify the vision. Cut them and they bleed the vision.

Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.