The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

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.

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Do all good things with sincerity, even if nobody appreciates, trust me every kindness are always appreciated by the Lord

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

You can't do the will of God if you don't know the Word of God.

I have bad car juju." -Stephanie Plum

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.