The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

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.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.