Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

When you yield yourself in complete and wholehearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers for your reinventions.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.