“Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge”

“The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.”

“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”

“The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.”

“Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.”

“God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.”

“Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.”