In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

Leadership is influence

...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

I don't want to tell people what they should think.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

I am a health nut and only do things that are good for my body.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.