“Even you cant tell yourself how to change, because you didnt create you. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the univer...”

“The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.”

“If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.”

“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

“Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.”

“If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”