The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

We are exceptionally good at seeing the faults in others and exceptionally adept at ignoring the faults in ourselves.

We have laws against polluting our rivers but not against polluting our minds.

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Be judgmental to yourself, but be kind and non-judgmental to others.

Seeing is 'making, ' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.