QUOTES
Love
casts out fear.
"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 for them to do. And, by fighting
for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers,
of the poor, of the destitute…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 that 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 well as our friend."
"Whenever
I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these
times of tension and strife which may, at any moment, become for us all a time
of terror, I think to myself: What else is the world interested in? What else
do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families,
in our work, in all our relationships? God is Love. Love casts out fear. Even
the most ardent revolutionist, seeking to change the world, to overturn the tables
of the money changers, is trying to make a world where it is easier for people
to love, to stand in that relationship to each other…There can never be enough
of it."
"The
sense of futility is one of the greatest evils of the day...People say, "What
can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that
we can only lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible
only for the one action of the present moment."
