When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start to become more humble, and those who are rising up will leave behind their need to be victims, their need to be angry or depressed....This is the spirituality of life, that helps people to rise up and take their place. It is not a spirituality of death. Jesus wants those who have been crushed to rise up and those who have power to discover that there is another road, a road of sharing and compassion.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

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

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.

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

Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.