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.

In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they're never separated. Where there is pain, there is healing. Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the kingdom.

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.