"For I was hungry, and you gave me no food, I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink..." What serious words! There is no need to comment on them. We must accept them in faith and understand well that by what we can do for another person and do not do, we have, through our own negligence, deprived our Lord... It speaks of what we fail to carry out. Of what we could do, but do not do due to our own negligence. This person who passes by and is poor, naked, on the road, suffering, asks us for nothing, but is a member of Jesus, is a piece of Jesus, a part of Jesus; if we let him pass and do not give him anything of what he needs, we have let Jesus pass by...
(Charles de Foucauld /1858–1916/, To the Least of My Brethren)
