True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

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

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!

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.