Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

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.

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

Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

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

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

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.