Occupation: Priest Birth: January 24, 1932 Death: September 21, 1996
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking..
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity ….
Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question ….
I'm learning that the blessing is located in our poor people, in people who are weak; they are the ones we should stay close to, not because they nee….
Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the fri….
You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the statu….
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,….
We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without….
Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared..
Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to k….
Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and co….
There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life..
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upo….
A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It ….
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there..
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness..
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness..
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the o….
The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World..
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in….