We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.

When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.