With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

Freedom has its roots in religion.

"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

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

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.