Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.