It’s hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.

Ang great love mo, hindi mo makakatuluyan. Ang makakatuluyan mo ay yung correct love.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)

Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.

He'd pulled back a little, just with his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I an idea why. Wow. Oh wow.

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.