Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?