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.

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

The final word is love.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Women think with their whole bodies

"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.

So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.