Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one.