Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.