The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

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.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

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

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.