In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.

Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.