A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Who can take away suffering without entering it?