“We live in the world we made up.”

“We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.”

“It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we’ve already lost.”

“We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.”

“When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.”

“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. ”