Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.