Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.