Too many people come into community to find something, to belong to a dynamic group, to find a life which approaches the ideal. If we come into community without knowing that the reason we come is to discover the mystery of forgiveness, we will soon be disappointed. ~ Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

When we reach heaven at the end of our pilgrimage God will ask this searching question: “Ou sont les austres?” Where are the others? ~Charles Peguy

I sense that a new spirituality is being born in the church today, flowing from the wounded hearts of the weak and broken who are crying out for friendship. This friendship is also a source of healing for those who answer their cry. Jean Vanier, Spiritual Journeys

The world is overcome not through destruction, but through reconciliation. Not ideals, nor programs, nor conscience, nor duty, nor responsibility, nor virtue, but only God’s perfect love can encounter reality and overcome it. Nor is it some universal idea of love, but rather the love of God in Jesus Christ, a love genuinely lived, that does this. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditations on the Cross

If Christ were coming again tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. – Martin Luther

Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation. – C.S. Lewis –

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