You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people are given to the world to tell others about peace and forgiveness and celebration, to make them aware that in the midst of their brokenness, there is joy; in the midst of their wounded nature, there is healing.

To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.