A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'