That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

That which we are, we are.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid’s pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.

What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and start chemical warfare? That's aggression.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?