„In the midst of an inflation of words where people have forgotten how to listen, we must so live today that one can read from our life alone what Jesus was and intended without words.“  This is the basic focus of the Focolare Movement of which we have already spoken.  Do not only speak about God, but become the Word of God for people who know nothing about God.  That's what it's all about.

- John 1:14 ("The word became flesh")

Let your gaze rest upon Jesus - God's word became flesh - linger in looking and let yourself be drawn into this mystery: to become word ...

Look back over your life with its different stretches of road.  Which word of the Bible have you sought to realize or to become embodied in you during a particular stretch of the road?... (Hans Urs v. Balthasar states that it is the task of the "saints", the great "lovers" in the history of the Church to make visible a word of Jesus with their life, displaying it bodily.)