Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce back when we thought we were completely defeated, a capacity to grow and change, a power of creative transformation.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.