There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed. . . There is no concern of Scripture that is addressed so often and so powerfully as reaching out to the poor.
One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.
Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle. . . Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?
I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
I am suspending my presidential campaign.
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.