To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.

We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.