It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me.
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.
The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.
One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.
What should I be but just what I am?
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.