As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.