Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one.

All the best things in life are free: love, smiles, friends, family, pets & companions, thoughts, sunsets & sunrises and especially rainbows.

Cereal is Wheat

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.