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

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

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

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.