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 sym...
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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 wi...
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
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?
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
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...
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
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 wh...
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
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 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 ni...
Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.