Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

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

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

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.