Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

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.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.