To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.