Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.

Everyone is the right person for the right person.

If rise of sun from east and fall in the west is the indicator of God’s existence

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.

May your crust be crisp and your bread always rise!

Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.

Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.

Who gathers the withered rose?