Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.