It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.

Yes, it’s embarrassing to be born again, but imagine how embarrassing it must have been to be born the first time. At least this time you get to wear clothes!

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.

Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.