the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.