If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.