We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
What we would like to do is change the world – make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.
The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man’s greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!
They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.
If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.