Peace is first of all the art of being.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.