To love can mean ‘to love oneself,’ and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.
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.