Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

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.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.