Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

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.

Real life is like that - it does not follow a neat plan. sometimes you have to get things very messily wrong so you can see how to get them right.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.

Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.

I got sick of the dough and thought I'd go on the loaf.

I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.