It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.

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.

Ish #1 "It's not your mama's macaroni and cheese if you used spaghetti noodles.

Sensuality isn’t a crime, though you act like showing a little skin will kill you.

Everyone has kind of done something that is bad and everyone has shades of good, but everyone has that darkness. There's always that little twinkle of darkness in everyone's eye.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.