What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.