A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.