Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

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

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.