No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.