How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a c….

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means th….

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their ….

Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is ab….

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachabl….

In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will str….

Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others whic….

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe i….

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God..

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely so….

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness..

For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)….

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all..

Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty se….

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always a….

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world ….

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics..

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying..

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism..

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God..