It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.

In the corporate world you get a report card every quarter and have to talk about it, whereas the church can drip, drip through bad trends for decades and decades.

We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't very interested to begin with.

It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.

There is no elevator to success to have to take the stairs.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

We put on certain music when we're going to a party, right? You have that playlist of songs that you listen to before you get pumped up to go out.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.