Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

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

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

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

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

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

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

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.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything....

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.