“Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.”

“A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?”

“The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.”

“The courageous have fears that cowards never know.”