“Do the truth quietly without display.”

“But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft and true witnesses without being manipulative.”

“Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in the morning sun and in the evening rain—that he loves you when your intellect denies it, your emotions refuse it, your whole being rejects it. Do you believe that God loves without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be.”

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”

“The love of Christ embraces all without exception.Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena)Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you.Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)”

“Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.”

“Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”