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

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

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

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

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.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.