Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.