Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.