The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
Don’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
The final word is love.
People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
As Dostoevski said: ‘Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it’s a question of living one’s life in a drastically different way.
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
If you feed the poor, you’re a saint. If you ask why they’re poor, you’re a Communist.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.