If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer..

Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you.".

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts.".

The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life..

Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention….

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be..

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second..

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals.

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in ….

Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allow….

Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the g….

Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us..

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the t….

In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change..

Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but ….

We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with….

I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he su….