Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

A conversion is a lonely experience.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.