It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.

If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too.

God is never late, but rarely early.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.