A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

If I look back I am lost.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.

Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"