Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

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'.

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.