Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.