The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.

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

We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

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

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.