“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

“We stumble on...bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves.”

“If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.”

“Sorrow comes in great waves...but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”

“You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.”

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.”

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”

“There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­—nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?”

“...let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“Everybody has a personal truth.  A personal truth is what you believe about yourself when nobody's listening and nobody's watching.”

“The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one doubt or disbelief.”

“The belief that becomes truth for me...is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.”

“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.”

“Faith is not simply a patience which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit which bears things...with blazing serene hope.”

“Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.”

“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

“It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms...proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our fully potential.”

“Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.”