“If you`re laughing,you are not crying,even though they look similar.And that works for me.”

“When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.”

“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”

“You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.”

“Do you realizethat Jesus is therein the tabernacleexpressly for you-for you alone? Heburns with thedesire to come intoyour heart… don’tlisten to the demon,laugh at him, andgo without fear toreceive the Jesus ofpeace and love…”

“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”

“A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I'm at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.”