Those who can be present with head, heart, and body at the same time will always encounter the Presence, whether they call it God or not.

Religion’s main job is to reconnect us (re-ligio) to the Whole, to ourselves, and to one another—and thus heal us.

Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

We will not appreciate Jesus’ loyalty to the Law and the Prophets if we do not accept his deeper understanding of freedom.

If a social order allows and encourages, and even mandates, good connectedness between people and creation, people and events, people and people, people and God, then we have a truly sacred culture: the Reign of God.

The Franciscan tradition has always seen all creation as the footprints and fingerprints of God and therefore sacramental.