Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead ….

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

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….

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile..

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to ke….

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….

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 ….

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt..

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, ….

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become..

There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in the morning he came down from the moun….

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convince….

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without ….

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up..

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….

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spo….

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal.".

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be….

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the ….

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..

A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our….