Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now..

How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your h….

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others..

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preo….

No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your angui….

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin c….

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home).

You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen d….

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, stu….

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness whi….

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surpr….

We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for g….

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation..

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life..

...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help ….

That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and ….

In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden..

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are no….

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen..

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something..

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible..