Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.