The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.