Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.