Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible.

What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong

If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

To believe is human to doubt is divine.

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

It is far better to have 10, 000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100, 000 random robot followers from around the world.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.