If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.