Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

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

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.