O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.

My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.