Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

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.

Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions, command effectively and so exercise power. But their role first of all is to be a person to whom others can turn for help and advice, to provide security, to affirm, to support, to encourage and to guide.

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

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.