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

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love.

She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

God made the world for the delight of human beings.