God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

The church is in the hope business.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

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.