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.

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

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.