“Our beauty unfolds, we become.The ones that truly value youAnd the pricelessness of your presence Will stick around to watch the full beauty of the sunsetAs they gaze through to your soulAnd feel warmed by your charmAs you unfold, as you become”

“Don’t be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.”

“Your greatest path of influence is love.”

“What might shift in my heart if God were to unveil my eyes and show me that despite my fears and uncertainties, I’m actually surrounded by his powerful protection and presence?”

“Presence is not an object. It is the openness that beholds it all.”

“When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.”

“And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunderstorm than if I hadn’t died.Of course I know thunderstorms don’t fall because I see them,But if I weren’t in the world,The world would be different —There would be me the less —And the thunderstorm would fall on a different world and would be another thunderstorm.No matter what happens, what’s falling is what’ll be falling when it falls.(7/10/1930)”

“Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.”

“The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God’s constant presence with ‘the real me.’ Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.”