“If God allows some people to pile up riches instead of making themselves poor as Jesus did, it is so that they may use what he has entrusted to them as loyal servants, in accordance with the Master’s will, to do spiritual and temporal good to others.
The more we lack in this world, the more surely we discover the best thing the earth has to offer us: the cross.”
Charles de Foucauld in Voices of the Saints, ed. by Bert Ghezzi (New York: Image Books) 128-129, 293.