Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.

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

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false self and its demons. No, it is precisely in the midst of this struggle that our Lord comes to us and says, as he said to the old man in the story: ‘As soon as you turned to me again, you see I was beside you.’

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.