And in trying to protect the image of God in them, we just might be protecting the image of God in ourselves in the process. Because with every decision, conversation, gesture, comment, action, and attitude, we're inviting heaven or hell to earth.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

You begin to see yourself not in isolation but as part of the whole. It becomes possible to help others as you would help yourself, not because service and charity make you feel good, but because you recognize that you are the very person you serve.