41 quotes found
“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.”
“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. ”
“Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.”
“Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ”
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”
“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
“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?”
“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”
“The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!”
“As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”
“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
“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 people-- lots of people-- pray through the...”
“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.”
“MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern...”
“My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?' (Psalm 42:2) But the Psalmist also says, 'In death there is no one that is mindful of thee.'...”
“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 we weren't so...”
“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 husband and family...”
“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 by an atheis...”
“When we are asked to show our love for God, our desire for him, when he asks us as Jesus asked Peter, 'Lovest thou me?' we have to give proof of it. 'Lovest thou me more than these, more than any h...”
“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 f...”
“We suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions and especially to subordinate our own impulses and wishes to to others - these are hard, hard thi...”
