If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.

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

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.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.