God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.

Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' - the same voice that gave life to the first Adam and spoke to Jesus, the second Adam; the same voice that speaks to all the children of God and sets them free to live in the midst of a dark world while remaining in the light.

Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.