To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.