The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.