Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

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.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

In rugby there are those who play the piano - and those who shift them

All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!