When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

I haven’t any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring...

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how...

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Will I someday pass into history having passed by God and therefore forfeited the opportunity to change my world and reap the blessing of being able to do so because I saw myself as inadequate...

Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”(Sister Imelda)

You cannot be escorted by the belief of inadequacy and get to the destination of excellence. Go along with “a can do spirit” because that is the only companion!

For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is “I didnt get enough sleep.” The next one is “I don’t have enough time.” Whether true or not, that thought...

I wanted to be good but I wasn’t sure if I was prepared

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a...

Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I’d never really been found in the first place.