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

Man is not meant to live alone.

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

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'