All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.