There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.