You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

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.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

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.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

If you want to be holy be kind.

Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the worlds deep need .

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody elses skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till theres nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end its all one.

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

You can kiss your family and friends good bye and put miles between you but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart your mind your stomach because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things happen. Dont be afraid.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep need meet.

The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been but you are because the party wouldnt have been complete without you.

Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. Theres no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's needs.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.