Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.