The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

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.

Break free from the contract of employment

Be unwilling to lose.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect.

No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.