If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls.

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living.

Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.