It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.