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

A conversion is a lonely experience.

We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane.