True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

Do not wait for the government to provide solutions to the people when you can be their answer

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

Let it be love, not the power of position that guides you for your success.

We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart

Why do we hide all the bullshit? Life is life. Why hide it?

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.