The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

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

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.