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

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

The only solution is love.

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

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.