Be sure that you make a difference in the world.
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.
God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.