Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.

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.

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

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

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.