For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

Community is where humility and glory touch.