The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

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

A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.