41 quotes found
“Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ”
“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...”
“Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the begi...”
“We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes time can stop shadowing us. Our lives are touched by those who lived centuries ago, and we...”
“Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.”
“Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.”
“Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.”
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”
“It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, l...”
“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”
“Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.”
“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving ...”
“We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.”
“The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.”
“There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.”
“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 t...”
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.”
“One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at...”
“The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!”
“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.”
