“God’s love often propels us into deep waters where we must either sink or trust in him. To love anyone is risky. Who knows what it will involve? How much more dangerous to fall in love with the one who is love incarnate.”

“The call to be a disciple is a call to move to an even deeper understanding of who we are, who we are called to be, in the self-giving of God in the cross of Jesus, and the hurricane of glory which finally transformed simple fishermen into fishers of men”

“Once we discover and encounter these new ways of being and doing we see a completely different future. A light dawns and our worlds are changed. So why would we go back?”

“The conviction of the gospel writers I think is that unless and until you find Christ at the center, unless and until you're ready to give everything up and follow him you haven't yet begun to live”

“Once we see now what Jesus' program is, we know what our program is and it's time to get to work”

“Your spiritual joy and your perfection will be found in the measure that you seek out those who are lost and bring them into the communion of God's life”

“Making disciples (i.e., “discipling”) meant going beyond borders. In fact, making disciples is building communities founded on just relationships. This is what building the kingdom of God means.”

“The Kingdom of Heaven proclaimed by Jesus is also the Kingdom of David, just as Jesus is fully God and fully Man”

“Matthew is NOT having Jesus begin by talking about Eternal Life in heaven. He is talking about living a life WITH GOD here and now.”

“We cannot claim truly to have received the Good News if we have no desire to share it”

“The light of God never grows dim. It is the light that has shone to the world and into the darkness of men’s lives. Christ is that light.”

“It is all too easy for us to see what is wrong with the Church, but to see what is right with the Church requires conversion. Healing within the Church will not come about by trying to focus on the sources of division. It will only come about by looking towards the source of unity...the cross of Jesus Christ that shines in the darkness.”

“It’s difficult to change our “all or nothing” mindset, but the effort it takes to do so can go a long way to preserve unity with our brothers and sisters in Christ, and in the communities that we live and work in.”

“People either place themselves at the centre of things and see others as more or less marginal; or they actually feel themselves to be marginal and profoundly unimportant, even worthless.”

“I have learned that often acts of violence are committed when people dissociate or disconnect from their own bodies and the world around them. This disconnection is aggravated by the growing individualism in our world today.”

“If only we could make ourselves realize that our lives do depend on one another. The path to salvation isn’t a lonely one. We have a duty to look out for one another. This is what serving means.”

“the Church is not just a group of Christ’s followers; the church is Christ continuing to bring light to those in darkness, and calling others to join the ever-widening circle.”

“The people who walked in darkness did see a great light precisely in the one who declared himself 'light of the world'”

“What is God working precisely where you feel most vulnerable, most alone, most lost?”

“we're dealing with a God that wants friendship with us, he wants intimacy with us. How do we get it? By walking behind him, coming after him, conforming our lives unto his. This is the whole demand of discipleship.”