Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, 'Come Lord Jesus!'

But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are.

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

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