Joy emanates out of the abiding sense of God’s fierce love for us.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

Always remain suspicious that God is up to something good.

Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.

Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

God sits enthroned, ready to listen, to help.

And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself." - The Sacred Echo

I owe my solitude to other people.

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.

You don't dream so that you can remember it. You dream to achieve it.

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.