The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing body. It would be made up of unions, credit unions instead of banks. There would be no more lending at interest. There would be no more money lenders.

Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.