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

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.

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

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.

Life gives us the greatest opportunity to serve and be happy.

Smiling face of every little girl is the signature of God’s presence.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Bells are musics laughter.