Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.

She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.