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We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them
The Lord 'hath set His tabernacle in the sun,' says the Psalmist. The sun is Mary's heart.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.
The task of dealing comprehensively with gangs belongs to the city, not to law enforcement.
O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.
Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.
The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.
He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.
All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him
It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.
I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.