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.

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

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

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