Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

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.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.