She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
If we knew how to listen to God, we should hear him speaking to us, for God does speak. He speaks in his Gospel; he speaks also through life - that new Gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.
We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.
Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.
War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.
Free education for all children in public schools. . . Combination of education with industrial production
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it