It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

Lovers re-create the world.

Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."

I apologize for my wild imagination.

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .