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

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

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

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'.

We don’t know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don’t know what to do with our own weakness except hide it or pretend it doesn’t exist. So how can we welcome fully the weakness of another if we haven’t welcomed our own weakness?