Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK.

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.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.