You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

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.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

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.