The Bible is the means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.

If you can forget the person you love, you have not loved enough.

In suffering, the soul cries out!

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Let me play a Man in a scene.

Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It’s all gonna make you better. Stronger.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you dont fight back it hurts forever.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.