This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.