Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives 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.

We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery.

The miraculous wonder of this blessed day is beyond my comprehension.

Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming

Every thought precedes an action.

God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Grief is a species of idleness.