The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

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.

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.