And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

Take more time, cover less ground.

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond."

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Love is its own reward.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.