To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

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.

I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.