Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.

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.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go.

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.