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

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.