What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish.

We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is sufficient for their needs. And now - strange thought - the devil has so maneuvered that the people turn from Him because those who profess Him are clothed in soft raiment and sit at well-spread tables and deny the poor.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

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