Sheldon Tabile

“The only person capable of addressing Zacchaeus, however, is someone for whom those people hidden in the branches of a fig tree are not strangers or aliens—someone who doesn't disdain them, who has concern for them, someone who can respond to what happens in their hearts and minds.”
― Tomáš Halík, Patience with God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us

“Christianity offers a different vision, the vision of a merciful and loving God, whose “silence” about our sins need not be interpreted as a sign of His nonexistence, but instead as an expression of His patience and readiness to forgive. But”
― Tomáš Halík, Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty