Love deems this world worth rescuing.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. (cont.)

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

(Cont.) Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help."

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

"Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals."

"Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part."