The worst thing is not the sorrow or the loss or the heartbreak. Worse is to be encountered by death and not to be changed by the encounter. There are pills we take to get through the experience, but the danger is that we then do not go through the experience but...
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to seeing them that we call them ordinary things.
It's you I like. It's not the things you wear. It's not the way you do your hair. But it's you I like, the way you are right now, the way down deep inside you. Not the things that hide you. ...It's you I like.
We'll worship the hind legs off Jesus, but never do a thing he says.
Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
All great and precious things are lonely.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
To say that prayer changes things is not as close to the truth as prayer changes me and then I change things.
Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silence where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.