Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

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

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.