Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is the opposite of distraction … how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.

Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

I feel the problems I have are meant to purify me.