People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

Community is where humility and glory touch.

When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.