Compassion flourishes when we have nothing to protect and everything to share.

Every act of love is a new beginning, a new creation. To live compassionately is to believe in a love greater than ourselves yet intimately present to us

If we truly believe that matter is holy, then we must act to make Christ alive as oneness-in-love.

Trust in God requires not the felt experience of God but the handing over of one’s life to God in darkness and silence, realizing that one’s life is not one’s own but belongs entirely to God.

Franciscan prayer, lived to its full, is to set the human heart on fire.

The mystery of being human lies in the mystery of desire, which shapes our lives and can change us.