If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

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

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.

Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.