And so I urge you to still every motion that is not rooted in the Kingdom. Become quiet, hushed, motionless until you are finally centered. Strip away all excess baggage and nonessential trappings until you...

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

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects – and infects – every sphere of our living.

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

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he...

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

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that...

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the...

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is...

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

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern...

Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are accustomed to relying upon words to manage...

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary...

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

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

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will...

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then...

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and...

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel’s fatal mistakes was their insistence on having...