Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

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.

Where you are and what you have been through has you perfectly placed to move forward. Stronger, braver, wiser.

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.