What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.