I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong

If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

To believe is human to doubt is divine.

Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible.

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

Good People bring out the good in other people.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice. NetworkEtiquette.net

I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

If tomorrow doesn't happen, would you still do what you're about to do today? If that answer is no, you're alive, but you're not living.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.