People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.