The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Sometimes you really want to say "Duh, " but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant assurance of hope.

Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?