When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

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

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.