We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

For those whose outlook is limited to the material realm, contentment and security must be measured in terms of material abundance. But for those who have learned to look in faith to God, there is another Source, inexhaustible and unfluctuating.

God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

We say that religion is a matter of mood: we must wait until the mood strikes us. And then we often wait for years —perhaps until the end of our life—until we are once again in the mood to be religious. This idea is based on a great illusion. It is alll well and good to let religion be a matter of mood, but God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.