“I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors....Jesus could have hung out in the high-end re...”

“Church isnt perfect. Its practice.”

“What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather Gods ability to work through sinners.”

“There is a reason Mary is everywhere. I've seen her image all over the world, in cafs in Istanbul, on students' backpacks in Scotland, in a market stall in Jakarta, but I don't think her image is e...”

“I'm surprisingly unconcerned with what people in my church believe. Beliefis going to be influenced by all sorts of things that I have nothing to do with, so I don't feel responsible for that. I'm ...”

“We often behave as though Jesus is only interested in saving and loving a romanticized version of ourselves, or an idealized version of our mess of a world, and so we offer to him a version of our ...”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”