Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.

If you can't be good, be loud.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.