Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.