To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

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.

Some find freedom in comfortothers find comfort in freedom

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Why are they so sad?” I asked. “Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.

If you love someone and you choose to spend the rest of your life with that person, that's your partner in every way.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.