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.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

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

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.

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.