Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, “Let it be with me according to your word.
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
The courageous have fears that cowards never know.
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.
We don’t fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.
Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one’s body shaped, one’s habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
Saints cannot exist without a community.