Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

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.

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.

Boldly and confidently, reach out to your dreams.

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

Protect yourself from Muslim vampires by making your neck non-halal.