Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

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.

First, there will be no kidnapping. I know you're stronger and bigger and have magic and crap, but I'm drawing the line at kidnapping.

Every generation of children has its private hero.

Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.