Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

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.

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

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.

We live by faith and not by sight.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that's great.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.