Time and Chance

There’s an ordinariness, an unobtrusiveness, to someone with a tranquil heart. She has come to terms with life itself being rather ordinary.

The goodness of God alleviates more anxiety than a swaggering self-confidence because it frees you from that dreadful cell of...you.

We hang a low ceiling over our imagination, and live the rest of our lives cramped and hunched over.

The faster you descend from your mountaintop of success into feelings of failure and self-loathing, the better. That means you’ll get to your next…

Try to remember—what used to happen when you got bored? What have we lost, exactly? The underlying catastrophe is the loss of humility.

Adultery is more like trying to get your summer tan in a single sunscreenless day at the beach.

Questions of value lead us to constantly look for something bigger, better and more lasting.

The violent man is like a dragon sleeping on his horde of treasure—never able to use it, and never happy about it.

We do not naturally possess wisdom. Left to your own devices, you are not in good hands. There is something inside us that is…

There is a decaying, deadening shallowness that seeps in during all this waiting. There is always something else coming. From year to year and…