I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

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.

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.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.