Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a singleminded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.