One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

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.

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

The church is something beautiful

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, & empowers us.

Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.