Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

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

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.

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

We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.