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

Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

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 over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

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.

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.