It is one soul which animates all men.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

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See how these Christians love one another.

Then, beside myself with joy, I cried out: "O Jesus, my Love, at last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love! Yes, I have found my place in the bosom of the Church, and this place, O my God, Thou hast Thyself given to me: in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be LOVE! . . .

Love can do all things. The most impossible tasks seem to it easy and sweet. You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them. What, then, have we to fear?