I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

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

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.