Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.
My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
You see I’m such a fool that I’m never afraid of appearing foolish.
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.