We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.

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

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

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

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.