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.

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In our world of brokeness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God; a heart that forgives, cares, reaches out and wants to heal.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

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.