God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead a Divine Life. That birth occurs in the Sacrament of Baptism. To survive, he must be nourished by Divine Life; that is done in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.