This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

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

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

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

Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.