As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.