If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."