All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.

He chose better for me, He always chooses better