The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In our world of brokeness and despair, there is an enormous need for men and women who know the heart of God; a heart that forgives, cares, reaches out and wants to heal.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.

If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.