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.
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.
God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them.
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn’t make much sense if the gospel were not true.
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.