Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

Ideas are nothing, doing is everything

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.