There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.

Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.