A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ. . . Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians. . . Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.
When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.
You design the life you want to have.
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.