“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...”

“God did not enter the world of our nostalgic, silent-night, snow-blanketed, peace-on-earth, suspended reality of Christmas. God slipped into the vulnerability of skin and entered our violent and di...”

“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 ...”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...”