There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

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

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

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.

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

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

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.