In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.

We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.