Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it's in the wrong hands in other places.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

Every advantage has its tax.

As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.