No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

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

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.