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

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

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it. There can never be enough thinking about it.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.