When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.