The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.
I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough. I'm not dismissing it.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.