If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

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

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

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

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.

I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.