To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.

If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I have searched for my forehead to find a secret writing about my fate and I found no trace of destiny, but my very own decisions!

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.