Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.

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 way you eat defines how you look to yourself, but the way you speak defines how you look to others.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.