Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

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.

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

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

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.