“To lend each other a hand when we’re falling, perhaps that’s the only work that matters in the end.”

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, ‘No, but I’m trying.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves — unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.

We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery.

Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.

Like time suspended, a wound unmended – you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I’ll wonder why.