Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

...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

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Cat herding is simple. Just drag a string behind you.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

By the way, to perform in front of Don Rickles, it 's not nerve-wrecking. It 's enjoyable, i am enjoying Jeff Garlin. I hope I perform in front of Don Rickles every night of my life !

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.