When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

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.