I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are.

I'm learning that the blessing is located in our poor people, in people who are weak; they are the ones we should stay close to, not because they need us but because we need to receive from them the blessing.

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.