First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

No matter what vision you have in Nigeria. The first thing that must be done is to destroy Terrorist.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.

Every member ... a missionary!

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

It's nice for us to have a fresh face in the camp to bounce things off.

We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.

This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.