When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.

I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.

The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.