People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

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

The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.