You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

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

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

Just as the birds of the air are fed, we'll continue to be fed.

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.