1. “You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.”
2. “Doubt are the ants in pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”
3. “Go were your best payers take you.”
4. “One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.”
5. “You enter the extraordinary by the way of ordinary.”
6. “Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is te poetry of things.”
7. “A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.”
8. “Of all the powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless.”
9. “To be wise is to be eternally curious.”
10. “Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.”
11. “Coincidences are God’s way of getting our attention.”
12. “If our pain doesn’t destroy us, it just might transform is into truly human beings at last.”
13. “Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one.”
14. “Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
15. “The chief drawback of anger is that what you are wolfing down is yourself.”
16. “You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.”
17. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’ss deep hunger meet.”
18. “Don’t let your life just go in one eye and out the other.”
19. “Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.”
20. “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.”
21. “The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens.”
22. “Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime.”
23. “The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.”
24. “If you want to be holy, be kind.”
25. “God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.”
26. “Tolerance is often just indifference in disguise.”
27. “The world needs people who save lives.”
28. “Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.”
29. “Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.”
30. “Disbelief is as much of a choice as belief is.”
