I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed read more

When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of read more

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, read more

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God
was so intensely real to him. What should read more

He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God
was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who
stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It read more

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.