What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.