The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. ... What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.