Lovers re-create the world.

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.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

Little do women know what big ideas I have in my pants.

It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

I bounced off a rock at the bottom and saw stars for a second, but I wasn't knocked out. It's the rush of rushes, the most incredible feeling I've ever had.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.