To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

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

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.