Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.