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.

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.