I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

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.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

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, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

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.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

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

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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 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?

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

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 sympathy for them as brothers.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

Most of our life is unimportant filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time take one step at a time.

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 sympathy for them a brothers.

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

The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Money is a poor man's credit card.