How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

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.

The first step to becoming is to will it.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.