We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

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

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

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

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?

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.