And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

We have God's joy in our blood.

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

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

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

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