a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.