Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.