Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim God’s love ev...
But in Solitude, we can pay attention to our inner self
At first sight, joy seems to be connected with being different. When you receive a compliment or win an award, you experience the joy of not being the same as others. You are faster, smarter, more bea...
A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself...
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken...
Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.
You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God’s unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love.
Receiving forgiveness requires a total willingness to let God be God and do all the healing, restoring, and renewing.
Our individual as well as communal lives are so deeply molded by our worries about tomorrow that today hardly can be experienced.
Jesus, however, took upon himself all this suffering and lifted it up on the cross, not as a curse but as a blessing. Jesus made the cup of God's wrath into a cup of blessings. That's the mystery of t...
I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her vulnerable self... to enter into a d...
I am called to enter into the inner sanctuary of my own being where God has chosen to dwell. The only way to that place is prayer, unceasing prayer, Many struggles and much pain can clear the way but...
God rejoices when one repentant sinner returns. Statistically that is not very interesting. But for God, numbers never seem to matter. Who knows whether the world is kept from destruction because of o...
Friendship and love cannot develop in the form of an anxious clinging to each other.
Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world?
We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.
We cannot see God in the other person. Only God in us can see God in the other person.
To care for others requires an ever-increasing acceptance.
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others.