Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into their lives. And I was loved, not because of what s doing but because of who I was.

Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.