Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

The sacred fire is faith.

There is no rerun of life. Rejoice while breathe.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

As we patiently follow the Savior, He will bless us beyond our own capacity to become what He wants us to be.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.