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.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.