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.

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.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God