Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

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 work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

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?

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)