We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

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.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

It does not matter how many times you fall, the most important thing is there exist grace to shake of the dirt, and pull all forces for a rise up.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.