Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship.

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.