You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

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

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.

... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.