You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.