If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential..

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….

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found..

Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and r….

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book..

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a gree….

When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Onc….

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..

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day..

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the oth….

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human….

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are trans….

The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In our world of brokeness and….

God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work i….

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that deg….

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised..

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

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help..

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….

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love..

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy..