It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, "You are a beautiful person, you are the beloved of God, don't forget it"? That's an important discipline.