An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

The only solution is love.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.