“Because our value is a gift, we don't have to prove ourselves, only to express ourselves...”

“It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”

“The consequences of the past are always with us, and half the hostilities tearing the world apart could be resolved today were we to allow the forgiveness of sins to alter these consequences.... if we were to say of ourselves, 'The hostility stops here.”

“But if we hate evil more than we love the good, we become damn good haters.... However deep, our anger, like that of Christ, must always and only measure our love.”

“Learning, and especially unlearning, can take place only in the absence of defensiveness.... [W]e can drop our defenses only when we love and are loved.”

“He who loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.' That's not really cruel. Loving Christ more than our fathers and mothers simply saves the love we have for our parents from idolatry.... God, as the source of love, is the proper head of every loving household.”

“And if we are not yet one in live at least we are one in sin, which is no mean bond because it preludes the possibility of separation through judgment.”