Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness..

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community..

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

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, cal….

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor..

There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems s….

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes..

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love..

It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, ….

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a hea….

I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless we have had an experience of God, unless ….

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance..

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gift….

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lone….

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….

'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this….

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper..

Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can….

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become….

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted..