Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

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

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

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.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

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

Working smart is harder than working hard. It’s just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding - it cures everything.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.