Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.