Great Throughts Treasury

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

"We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship."

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

"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."

"What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world."

"What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute--the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words--we can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend."

"When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved."

"With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them."

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

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

"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."

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