Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of...
Jesus made it clear that the moral demands of the faith he taught centered on love, justice, and mercy. I believe that God is, here as everywhere, nudging Christians toward love—love for the Creator, love for other people, love for self, love for the world God has...
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand....
The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so.
We must be the ones that invest in abandoned places. In abandoned people. Because when the world says that there is no future there, we are the ones who know better. We believe in a God that restores.
Until the great mass of people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
I have seen beauty in people who were called ugly and I've seen the devil in the most angelic faces.
This beautiful prayer [from John 17] for union is from Jesus’ Last Supper address to his disciples. It might be the highest level of mystical teaching in the entire New Testament. Here Jesus connects everything: he in his Father, the Father in you, you in God, God in...