Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

To amaze yourself, lift your spirit and see through your love the beauties of life.

What I’m trying to say is, there’s no perfect life without you. In fact, I no longer dream about a “perfect” life. I only dream about a life with you.

Jesus died on the cross not only so I wouldn't have to go to hell, but also to give me an abundant life on this Earth.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs