Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

The bright the light is, the darker the shadows are.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.

Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.