I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

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

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.