I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are