In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

Sometimes we live as if we are blindfolded.

Peace is its own reward.

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

The universe conspires to help the dreamer

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)