Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?

I think everybody has a responsibility to themselves. If at the end of the day, you can rest and feel OK with yourself, that's fine.

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

Love is not a victory march

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.