Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.

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

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.