Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

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.

If I love one lover, ...I have loved many more.

It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.

To justify God's ways to man.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.