“Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.”

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’

They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.

The warlords–of war and peace–destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.

Extinction’ issue. Save the species for whom???

Learn what you are and be such.

True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.