The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation..

How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your h….

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the oth….

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing t….

When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Onc….

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not try to pull us awa….

People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real ….

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help..

The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow ….

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of….

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we w….

Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and r….

I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me..

Emit gratitude as though it was done.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy..

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential..

It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intim….

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world..

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships..

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others.

I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spiri….