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.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, "You are a beautiful person, you are the beloved of God, don't forget it"? That's an important discipline.