When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

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.

There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.

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.

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.