I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it..

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile..

Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what I've come to think. That if I want to identify fu….

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that ….

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live..

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to….

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them tog….

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine..

Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have..

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all..

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition..

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of….

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdo….

It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a ….

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept..

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awful….

God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egyp….

A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His l….

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight.

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days..

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to..