The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

We are all one body, we are all one.