Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.