I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compass…

- Joyce Rupp

if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I…

- Joyce Rupp

Drink more water and walk in a relaxed manner.

- Joyce Rupp

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

- Joyce Rupp

Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. …

- Joyce Rupp

I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.

- Joyce Rupp

God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain. I look to you for strength and a constant …

- Joyce Rupp

Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me.

- Joyce Rupp

By the light of your stars, heal me.

- Joyce Rupp