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

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.