“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.

Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.

Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.

A person is a person through other persons.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.

We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter – you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Believe and let what goes go and what comes come. 

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Happiness left when one began chasing it. It was always there.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

We all have stories which we are afraid to tell.

Isn’t it strange, it’s not that our body forgets to breathe but subconsciously we hold our breath.

Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.