“Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.”

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

I stopped complaining about things I didn’t have, and poured gratitude for what I did. Life became lighter and more fulfilling. Desire didn’t hold onto me like it earlier did. Happiness filled in like light, and life started to feel like a blessing.

The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfilment.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.

Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.