Occupation: Priest Birth: January 24, 1932 Death: September 21, 1996
Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning..
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God..
The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outwa….
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real o….
The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world..
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and rece….
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God a….
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . ..
Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we ar….
It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intim….
I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spiri….
Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of….
Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us awa….
You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking..
Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships..
It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an….
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next..
Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the dee….
The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God..
Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God..
You don't have to run around world proving you're lovable..