Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.
I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something. But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.