Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.
If you want peace, work for justice.
Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.
Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the Living Heart of each of our parishes.
For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.
Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
Never give advice in a crowd.