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Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.
As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.
Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.
To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!
Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.
I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.
Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.
Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.
By dialogue, we let God be present in our midst, for as we open ourselves to one another, we open ourselves to God.
Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.
It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.
Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.
Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.