There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.
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