What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

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

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them 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?

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.