If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it’s right.
Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.
What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
The only solution is love.
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
What we would like to do is change the world – make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.