We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality..

The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: 'you are….

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with v….

Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weakne….

I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invin….

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil..

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, fro….

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate..

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them..

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity t….

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most lov….

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and ….

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives..

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly..

Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest peo….

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don'….

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals..

[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fl….

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers..

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus ….

So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and we listen….