If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us, and this alone will be the cause of our deep fulfillment and happiness.
Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.
Our lives change when our habits change.
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.
You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely.
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can’t buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves – not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother’s womb.
Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.
Every journey to something is a journey away from something.
God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
Let your life be guided by greatness.
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of – and in spite of – the modern climate.
It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.
The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives.
We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.
Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.
Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don’t really want balance. We want satisfaction.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing “selves” that are worth expressing.