If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

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.

when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.