The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.

We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

You still are? There go my plans! And the suit I had bought to attend your funeral. Well, well. Anyway, do call me up when you an't.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.