The most useful is the greatest.
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.
Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker. . . the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.