Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

The only solution is love.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

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

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.