[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

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.

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

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

To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.

I can't find the words." She stared daggers at him. "Don't hurt yourself trying.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.