Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life

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

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most.

I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always...whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

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.