Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in….

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine..

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God..

Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the ….

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of ha….

As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, ….

Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and co….

Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to k….

You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the statu….

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness..

One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity ….

In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness..

I'm learning that the blessing is located in our poor people, in people who are weak; they are the ones we should stay close to, not because they nee….

Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the fri….

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question ….

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without….

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life..

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared..

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the o….

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there..

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers,….