The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Have we even begun to be Christians?

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

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

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

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

The world was in terrible shape, and I’m glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we’d say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but...

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

I don’t think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written...

As Dostoevski said: ‘Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just...

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking...

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

the stranger’s room.” Not because these people thought they could trace something of someone they loved in the stranger who used it, not because the man or woman to whom they gave shelter reminded them...

Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when...

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some...

We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in.We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form saying, “We need bread.”….If there were six small loaves and a few...

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

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.