Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

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.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

Things can be translated, but they become different.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

To out-group-members, oxytocin makes you crappier - less cooperative and more preemptively aggressive. It's not the luv hormone. It's the in-group parochialism/xenophobia hormone.