Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

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.