My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)