To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

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

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

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong