True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

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

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.