If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. - Alan Hirsch

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

What we find in our heroes and martyrs is a living witness to the fact that the true life of faith can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if one takes it on bravely and gallantly, as something of a grand adventure in which we set out into an unknown country to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.