You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.