I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.