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

...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.

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

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

the night of thought is the light of perception.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes?

For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

Your courage to do what's right has to be greater than your fear of getting hurt

I'm much too modest a person.

Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.