The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

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.

Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.

I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.