Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.