Abortion. . . interferes with God's plan-a plan He willed before He created the universe.
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.