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.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

Go where your best prayers take you.

To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.