It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.

He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

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.

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.