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We have God's joy in our blood.
If you want to be holy, be kind.
Go where your best prayers take you.
The world needs people who save lives.
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?
Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.
Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.
Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.
Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.