The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

Some can be rich and not be happy because money does not buy happiness and happiness wont change the past.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

I care for riches, to make gifts.

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.