Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Run and become.Become and run.Run to succeed in the outer world.Become to proceed in the inner world.

Peace is not something to say but something to do.

Im as country as a dozen eggs.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

Silence is a great source of strength.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.