The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.

I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.