Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible..

It is good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go. There are so many moments in life when you are free to pray. When you are waiting for the c….

God is your safety and your home. You are well embraced." Start living the multi-formity of life from this place. If you can hold on to that, it all ….

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue..

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to ….

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God l….

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad c….

Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world ….

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table..

I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It ….

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are..

His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, ….

The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into their lives. And I was l….

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping..

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be r….

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond fre….

I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but a mission. He met me at….

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the un….

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the mid….

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us dee….

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable futur….