When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.