The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varyi….

Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is not to be afraid of it—….

Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out ….

This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes second natur….

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence wh….

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for s….

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life ac….

It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our….

The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is ….

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we….

More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it t….