Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

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.

There you go. Perfect. And can you still throw up at will like you could in sixth grade? That would be good.

Our natural state is trustin ourselvesin othersuntil we learn differentlythen we hurt as we try to unlearn ituntil it dawns on our hearts that if we live and act with pure intentwe do not need trust.

A person who lies for you can lie to you too.

But I think it has to do with what you believe about yourself. If you believe you're damned, then you are. But if you don't...

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.