The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.