We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!