We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

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

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.