"Heaven, then, is not a promise we await but a practice we fully engage in."
"Richard Rohr was right: 'We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.'"
"Homeboy receives people; it doesn't rescue them. In being received rather than rescued, gang members come to find themselves at home in their own skin. Homeboy's message is not 'You can measure up someday.' Rather it is, 'Who you are is enough.'"
"There is nothing more essential, vital, and important than love and it's carrier - tenderness - practiced in the present moment."