It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.