The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.

The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.