It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

The only solution is love.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.