Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

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

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.