The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.

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.

Ignorance is toxic. If a man hands you a cup of coffee and pours in what he calls liquid sugar when the container clearly says poison, how bliss is your ignorance?

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Pure heart begets pure thoughts.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.