Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.
A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.
To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.
We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.
I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.
If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.
Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.
A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.
The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.
If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself...
If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away l...
There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' p...
In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.
To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.
Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.
It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.
The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.
The romantic within us is a harbinger of our deepest desires.
Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.