Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Sleep not with an albatross unless you wish your dreams to fly away.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Youth is a time of tremendous energy. You should look at the possibilities, not the problems.

The journey of motherhood centers on being the person God has chosen out of all humanity and space and time to care for these souls, these beings who will exist for all eternity.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.