To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

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

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.