In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkn….

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices..

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others..

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that th….

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening..

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

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 ….

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….

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..

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

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

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….

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..

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'….

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….

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

[...] 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 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….