If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.