You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.