Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

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.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .