Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

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.

Time is how you spend your love.

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

I was raised Catholic and now I am a Christian and follow of the Lord Jesus Christ. I made the change because the Holy Spirit revealed a truth to me.

I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.