“We inherit from God also, more importantly, the love that we first learned in the warmth of our families, the love that we recreate in the families that we raise, and the love that we practice with our fellow human beings, our fellow children of God.”

“Bread with justice, forgiveness with mercy, and rescue from the cosmic storms of evil that our human wrong-doing can generate—these are God’s concerns, and these are the concerns of our prayer.”

“With a spirit of action and a spirit of contemplation, our works will begin to heal both the brokenness of the soul, and the brokenness of the world.”

“We’ve heard the story of the Good Samaritan so many times we think we know it.”

“Mission is how we proclaim, by word and example, the Good News of God in Jesus Christ. But before we engage in mission we must first become disciples.”

“The Holy Spirit continues the active presence of God in our lives, living in our thinking, in our feeling, in our actions, and in our speech. The Holy Spirit inhabits our very breathing.”

“Like the apostles gathered in that house, we feel the power of the Pentecost wind, calling us to tell the stories of our faith journeys each in our own language.”

“It is this radical, disruptive force-field of love, taught to us by Jesus Christ and introduced into a hostile world in the decades after his death, that we are called today, through our baptism, to profess into the hostile world we live in now.”

“And that peace. the shalom of God, doesn’t depend on spears or guns, prisons or police, planes or bombs. God’s peace depends on something harder and more outrageous than our technological genius. It depends on a change of heart, a change of mind.”

“In loving as God loves, we open ourselves to the capacity for a powerful and world-transforming love, a capacity in which we can feel confident because we realize that we have ourselves been loved by the greatest being in the universe.”