"We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has."
"We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster."
"The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person."
"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."
"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present."
"The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love."