Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...

Why do I meditate? Because I am a Christian and because for that very reason every day is lost to me in which I have not deepened my knowledge of God's word in Holy Scripture. It is only on the firm basis of God's word that I can take certain steps. As a Christian, however, it is only through hearing the sermon and through prayerful meditation that I come to know Holy Scripture.

Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.

If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well?

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

It's been a crazy whirlwind, but I'm so blown away by God's hand on my life.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.