The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

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

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

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.