Occupation: Priest Birth: January 24, 1932 Death: September 21, 1996
Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply..
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day..
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter..
Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voi….
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle an….
Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves..
Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand..
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer..
When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our re….
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful an….
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control ….
The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom, staying behind t….
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-bet….
I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns..
[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the o….
God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well..
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer..
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend..
People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence..
The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; lif….
Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world..