Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.