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.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!