The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

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.

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.

When the night arrives, I often look up at the bright sky only to close my eyes and see the light within. Everything above so is below.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you; it radiates from within you.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.