The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.

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

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.