The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

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

We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.

Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.