Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'