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

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the Kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy, too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighers, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.