The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith this is my joy.

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.