Religion Is A Very Scary Thing, Because

In High School I Was Very Much Involved In Poetry. You Cannot Read A Poem Quickly. There's Too Much Going On There. There Are Rhythms And Alliterations. You Have To Read Poetry Slow, Slow, Slow To Absorb It All.

That's The Whole Spiritual Life. It's Learning How To Die. And As You Learn How To Die, You Start Losing All Your Illusions, And You Start Being Capable Now Of True Intimacy And Love.

Pity Is One Of The Noblest Emotions Available To Human Beings; Self-pity Is Possibly The Most Ignoble . . . . [it] Is An Incapacity, A Crippling Emotional Disease That Severely Distorts Our Perception Of Reality . . . A Narcotic That Leaves Its Addicts Wasted And Derelict.

My Job Is Not To Solve People's Problems Or Make Them Happy, But To Help Them See The Grace Operating In Their Lives.

God Made My Life Complete When I Placed All The Pieces Before Him. When I Got My Act Together, He Gave Me A Fresh Start. Now I'm Alert To God's Ways; I Don't Take God For Granted. Every Day I Review The Ways He Works; I Try Not To Miss A Trick. I Feel Put Back Together, And I'm Watching My Step. God Rewrote The Text Of My Life When I Opened The Book Of My Heart To His Eyes.