Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

When you're on the bus or subway or in your car, why busy your mind with all the garbage of advertisements? Why fill your mind with television and radio? Somehow you have to decide what your mind will receive. I don't mean you shouldn't ever go to movies or watch television, but control what enters your mind and heart. It's not just a question of pushing bad things out but also a question of holding on to something really good.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.