In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.