If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

Lovers re-create the world.

Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them

Live daring life.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people—

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.