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.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.