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

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

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

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....We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, 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.

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