The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

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.

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.

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