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.
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.