Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things..

Prayer is - a means of uniting us unto Himself..

To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light..

We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer..

The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Fra….

Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God..

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion.

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. T….

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field….

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time..

In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience..

Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whi….

Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and ex….

The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to ….

It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting..

In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicaed, Spirit-empowered peole. All of creation watc….

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air..

The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn….

Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will c….

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment..

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we ….