That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.