“We seek God in our vigor, but he often comes to us in suffering. We pursue God in success; we find him in defeat. We assume following him will mean gain; he is our Lord in loss. We want him in abundance; but he speaks to us in poverty.”
Source: The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians
“I believe God has placed in the heart of every one of us the longing for heaven, which is actually a longing for him.”
Source: The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians
“One light is steady and sure, the other uncertain and flickering. . . . On balance, it's where I prefer to be: somewhere in the middle. Certainty is a dead space, in which there's no more room to grow. Wavering is painful. I'm glad to be travelling between the two.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Massive growth doesn't come form lateral moves. It comes from taking a stand for something great, for your best self, for being willing to be misunderstood, and even a willingness to be lonely for a while.”
Source: Church Boy to Millionaire: How to Find Personal Freedom and Liberate Your Millionaire Mindset for Massive Impact
“If you can begin to see your life as a feedback
mechanism that is reflecting who you are, with the ultimate goal to help you live better and more fully. All of a sudden you realize it was never the world standing in your way but your own mind.”
“And if we take it seriously, we are going to find that this simple notion of a loving God does not make for an easy philosophy.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“To gain momentum for growth, keep adding moments of success achieved - however small.”
“To gain momentum of growth for yourself,
keep adding moments of success achieved - however small.”
“I research moonlight effects on sleeping humans. The research goes well with the exception of causing excessive body hair growth, a pointy nose, and a craving for dog food!”
“In the windowpane I caught a glimpse of myself: fat, badly-dressed, the seams on my skirt about to burst, my hair in need of a trim, my shoes run down at the heels, yet for once I didn't give a damn. I thought of how anxious I had been about this city, its intimidating chic, its hostile shopkeepers, Simone de Beauvoir's opinion of me, my clothes, my hairdo, my weight, my inability to speak the language properly. "Bonjour, Madame," I said to the proprietor in my fractured French. "Deux litres du lait, s'il vous plait."
Why do we always worry about the wrong things, I wondered?”
Source: A Tale of Five Cities & Other Memoirs