If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

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