Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.

We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism.

There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.

[People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.