Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

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.

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting?

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

There is only one core issue in the immigration debate, and that issue is the well being of the American people.

You do not know what you will earn tomorrow.

The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.