Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

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

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.

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.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.