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.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

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

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

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

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.