Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.

The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

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