All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.