In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us..

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know..

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity..

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate..

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up..

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality..

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing..

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it ….

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order..

When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already beca….

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually..

There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes..

When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition o….

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me,….

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in ….

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth..

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action..

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism..

As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid ….

True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a pe….

People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's whe….