Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always the opposite of what I tried to get. A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.