Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones.

Let me find you again. Amen.

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

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

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

Praying demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your fellow human. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

The members -- mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense -- welcomed me into their lives. And I was loved, not because of what s doing but because of who I was.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

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

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.