Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness.

This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.