Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Advent creates people, new people.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.