The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.