Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

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

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.