The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.