The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it..

Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effective….

Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is d….

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. When we pool our st….

We don’t know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don’t know what to do with our own weakness except hide it or p….

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And th….

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive ….

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition..

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us.

Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life.

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..

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value..

Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but ….

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them..

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts..

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….

Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces of darkness. It is not a….

He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED..

In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be wit….

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community….

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus..