When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

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

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.