Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions backed by the Church's infallible teaching authority. The answer is known by those who remember the conciliar declaration of March 6, 1964, repeated on November 16, 1964. In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner any dogmata carrying the mark of infallibility.

Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Church from her present difficulties, but so that I can suffer something for the Church, and in that way it will be clear that he, and no other, is her guide and saviour