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If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

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