Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

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.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

I'm not hiding from anyone. I am who I am, and I'm not perfect.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.