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

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

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

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

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.

A great artist is conscious of the talent and the power he possesses, otherwise he would not see his faults, and so would not be able to improve.

'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love.

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

Football is in my blood. For me the bubbles will never fade and die

As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind all principality and power, so Christians put on the Holy Spirit, and are at rest.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.