Occupation: Priest Birth: January 24, 1932 Death: September 21, 1996
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life..
The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matt….
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man..
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater t….
My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours..
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is nigh….
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves.….
Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain….
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand..
I had a deep experience of God's love for me..
Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we….
It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go..
I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not con….
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist..
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful..
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us..
There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal..
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life..
'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my at….
Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about..
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship..