The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.