Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ.

When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.

It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.