By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.