“LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.”

“People change, but only if you give them room to do it.”

“Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.”

“Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal. We are not striving for perfect community. Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we would want them to be. Community means giving them space, helping them to grow. It means also receiving from them so that we too can grow. It is giving each other freedom; it is giving each other trust; it is confirming but also challenging each other. We give dignity to each other by the way we listen to each other, in a spirit of trust and of dying to oneself so that the other may live, grow and give.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”

“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”

“To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.”

“Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi”

“Because God loves us, because He wants us to grow into truth, He must necessarily make demands on us and must also correct us”