What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.