The search for God begins at the point of need.

When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.

No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.