In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.