The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.

Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.