Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine aware….

The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift universe in the mouth! ….

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along..

The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Chris….

The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love for me, your life is no long….

It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are for….

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic..

To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of eve….

Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of ….

Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper en….

Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be….

A healthy soul must do two things for us. First, it must put some fire in our veins, keep us energized, vibrant, living with zest and full of hope as….

This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but c….

You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill wi….

Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others..

Sanctity has to do with gratitude. To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less..

Resiliency is the key to love..

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life..