Spirituality

Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

You are going out. You will meet suffering. You will meet humiliation. You will meet sorrow. You will meet joy. You will meet success. You will be wanted. You will be unwanted. You will be loved. You will not be loved. All that is part of Jesus' fate.

Hunger is not only for a piece of bread. Hunger is for love. Nakedness is not only for a piece of cloth. Nakedness is for human dignity. Homelessness is not only for a home made of bricks. Homelessness is being rejected, unwanted, unloved.

I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.

We all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Through our scientific genius we have made of this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual genius we must make of it a brotherhood.

The divisions between us are artificial and transient. Our common humanity is God-made and enduring.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Go alone; refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.