We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.

The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

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