I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.
Do not be afraid to dream great things!
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.
Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker. . . the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.
Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.