"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet."

"Go where your best prayers take you."

"Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking."

"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."

"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."

"Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention."

"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."

"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle."

"A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand."