But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

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

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

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

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

You Never Have To Worry About Forgetting Anything, If You Just Tell The Truth.

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.