Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.