Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a b….

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional….

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other an….

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever ….

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a v….

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us..

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister..

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger..

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline..

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...….

Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with ….

The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known to us there, to free us ….

Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more….

...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. Tha….

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor.".

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness..

The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, no….

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others..

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life..

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is….

Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use hi….