If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

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 is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.