The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace?

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

Read every day and learn from what you read.

The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world.

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.