One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

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

The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.