When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.