A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.