I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

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

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.