Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

Hospitality is simply love on the loose.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Life is the ability to start over again.

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.