it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies

Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope.

What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?

I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

I find a source of love in everything that breathes, moves, touches, whispers, smiles. I wake up everyday to search and find love in the wild dream of loneliness.

Isn’t he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.