Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.