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

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

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.