Silent Solitude Makes True Speech Possible And

Be Daring Enough To Be Different, Humble Enough To Make Mistakes, Wild Enough To Be Burnt In The Fire Of Love, Real Enough To Make Others See How Phony You Are.

As We Come To Grips With Our Own Selfishness And Stupidity, We Make Friends With The Impostor And Accept That We Are Impoverished And Broken And Realize That, If We Were Not, We Would Be God. The Art Of Gentleness Toward Ourselves Leads To Being Gentle With Others -- And Is A Natural Prerequisite For Our Presence To God In Prayer.

Hope Knows That If Great Trials Are Avoided Great Deeds Remain Undone And The Possibility Of Growth Into Greatness Of Soul Is Aborted.

Everybody Has A Vocation To Some Form Of Life-work. However, Behind That Call (and Deeper Than Any Call), Everybody Has A Vocation To Be A Person To Be Fully And Deeply Human In Christ Jesus.

Won't The Awareness God Loves Us No Matter What Lead To Spiritual Laziness And Moral Laxity? Theoretically, This Seems A Reasonable Fear, But In Reality The Opposite Is True. . . . The More Rooted We Are In The Love Of God, The More Generously We Will Live Our Faith.