When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

- Philip Gulley

Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.

- Philip Gulley

I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we…

- Philip Gulley

In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.

- Philip Gulley

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of sof…

- Philip Gulley

Raw pain alarms. us. It reminds us that life isn't as orderly as we'd hoped. We demand that pain settle down before we shuffle it off to the quiet ta…

- Philip Gulley

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

- Philip Gulley

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

- Philip Gulley

People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to…

- Philip Gulley