I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.