Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

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.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom.