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“Unless you crucify your ego, you cannot be my follower, Jesus says.” - You have to die to find Jesus. To be embraced by the fulness of his love you have to allow (that is, choose) yourself to be totally vulnerable (crucified), exposed.

“Enemies are also our brothers and our sisters. Notice, please, that I am not denying that we have enemies, real enemies, who are wicked, twisted, violent, and dangerous. But it is a Christian conviction that all of that evil is not telling the deepest truth about the enemy. The deepest truth is that he or she is a child of God, and thus worthy of our love.”

“Love is to resist the centripetal force that compels one to assume the attitudes of self protection.” - love is vulnerability

“Faith… is a signal, coming from the depths of our existence, that we want to cooperate with Grace.”

Love is a theological virtue. Not a habit or capacity that that comes from its cultivation… But as a gift from God. Real love is only possible amongst humans in as much as we participate in God’s love.

“Biblical religion is not primarily about our quest for God; it is about God‘s quest for us. For the authors of the Bible, the interesting thing is not that we seek joy and spiritual fulfillment. The interesting thing is that God seeks us with a reckless abandon.” - “The Pursuing God,” Homily

“The glory of God is a human being fully alive” - St Irenaeus

“if the Incarnation is an accomplished fact, then the presence of the true God is not invasive or interruptive, but rather non-competitive. In light of this coming together, we must say that there is a rapport of coinherence between divinity and humanity, each abiding in the other, in such a way that humanity is elevated by the proximity of the divine.”

“.. we are not announcing a private or personal spirituality, but rather declaring a new King under whose Lordship everything must fall.”

When the true God…comes close to creatures, they are not consumed; rather, they become more beautifully and radiantly themselves, on fire but not burned up.” - Arguing Religion, 105-106