To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.

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

We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.