One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.

She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Different times need different types of leadership.

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.

We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.