Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.