My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a singleminded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature.

God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.