“The neglect of widows in the early post-Resurrection communities leads me to reflect on our world today, on our national and global state of distribution of goods, food, basic needs, shelter, and clothing...Looking at the millions who suffer from hunger today, we know that our response to hunger has not been adequate.”

“We are sinners, and have blind spots about our faults. But under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, reformers have opened our eyes to our failures. This has led to the community developing imaginative solutions, sometimes new ministries.”

“The church growing but with growth comes conflict. But look at how beautifully that conflict was resolved. By a very interesting, healthy play between the authority of the Twelve and the involvement of the community.”

“What if you woke up in the morning and said 'my task today above all is to bring God to people?' Not primarily to be personally successful, not primarily to be chipper and happy, not primarily to do this or that, my job today and everyday is to bring God to people.”

“Jesus, the Way, the Truth and the Life, is at work in all the situations we face to bring about our salvation. But Jesus spoke these words into a dark and difficult situation for his disciples. What it tells us is that nothing need separate us from the light of Christ and the love of God.”

“Jesus is our promised land. In him we find our true home, our dwelling now and in the eternal life to come. And the home Jesus invites us to move into is a home that is characterized by his perfect peace.”

“Jesus never tried to escape his humanity so when he says 'I am the way' he means that we are to live as he has lived. He has done, he has walked the walk and talked the talk, and he wants us to follow behind him.”

“The whole point of his divinity is that we can now revel in the fact that he wants what's best for us. Here's the bottom line, the more we affirm the divinity of Jesus the more loving and inclusive and accepting we become of others.”

“Do we have enemies? Sure we do. But what divides us is always less foundational than what unites us. What if you were to live out of that consciousness consistently?”

“Heaven is difficult to talk about for obvious reasons. We have no immediate frame of reference. Whatever we say about heaven is always symbolic, anthological, poetic sort of talk but at the same time heaven is everything. It's what it's all about.”

“Senior living buildings are everywhere. That means senior loneliness is omnipresent. How do we find ways to distribute the “daily portion” of God’s love?”

“Troubles will never be over until we are over from this life. But it is only our perseverance that will win for us the Eternal Homeland.”

“If, as Peter suggests, we are being built into a spiritual house, do we have rooms to welcome others as God models for us?”

“We can’t hold this institution together on our own – and nor are we meant to. She was Christ’s Church before she was “our” Church, and it is Christ who is the original living stone giving firmness to his Church. We stumble, but he holds firm, and so the living lattice holds firm with him.”

“We Christians have not ‘got’ the Truth. The Truth has got us. Our encounter with Truth is first of all a journey of change in us. Going the way of the Lord tells us the Truth about who we really are, and the surprise of what we are becoming.”

“The destination now is not a geographical one, not the earthly paradise of Galilee and the Jordan valley. The destination is simply the Father who is love and who has first loved us.”

“See, we're members of his mystical body. Shift the metaphor a little bit, we're the living stones that make up the temple that he is.”

“So everybody on this 5th Sunday of Easter meditate on that temple in Jerusalem, which has morphed if you want into the temple of the Church, which in turn anticipates this great heavenly temple”

“A priest is a mediator between God and human beings. Someone who offers a sacrifice and praise to God and thereby links divinity and humanity. A priest is a kind of pontifex. That means bridge builder.”