Top 19 Peter Maurin Quotes
#1. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.
Peter Maurin
#3. I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.
John Wesley
#4. I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.
Magic Johnson
#5. I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
P.J. Harvey
#6. I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
Shane Claiborne
#7. The future will be different if we make the present different.
Peter Maurin
#8. It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.
Peter Maurin
#9. Take two Afghans who've never met, put them in a room for ten minutes, and they'll figure out how they're related.
Khaled Hosseini
#10. The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.
Peter Maurin
#12. The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.
Peter Maurin
#13. The world would become better off
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better
If they stopped trying to become better off.
Peter Maurin
#14. Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods
Peter Maurin
#15. If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.
Peter Maurin
#17. What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.
Peter Maurin
#18. Peter Maurin always says that it is the duty of the journalist to make history as well as record it. - Dorothy Day
Patrick Jordan
#19. I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.
Peter Maurin
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