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

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

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.

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

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

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.