Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

A happy life is a life for others.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.