The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

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.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.