The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

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 Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

I still don't feel whatever change you're supposed to feel when your name goes up above the title.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.

I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.