Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

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

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

We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

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

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.