Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to ….

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved..

It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A ….

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others..

When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life..

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end..

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment a….

Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us..

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but d….

My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures i….

Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that i….

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight..

The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The w….

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one..

It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me be….

Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it….

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her un….

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply ….

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of yo….

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside..

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be..