We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.

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

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. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.