I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.
Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.
Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.
Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off.
One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.
Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia And in the narrowest limits no limit in here. What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!