Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.
A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, ‘I can’t prove a thing, but there’s something about his eyes and his voice. There’s something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.’
Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
It is not the objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.
If you have never known the power of God’s love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it – I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
God doesn’t reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
Coincidences are God’s way of getting our attention.
Go where your best prayers take you.
Faith is not being sure where you’re going, but going anyway.