What then must we do?

More quotes from "Year of Living Dangerously". Pictures taken from Photographer John Hulme's Website

"Most of us become children again when we enter the slums of Asia. And last night I watched you walk back into childhood, with all its opposite intensities - laughter and misery, the crazy and the grim, toy town and a city of fear..."


"This is a little market for the poor.

(quoting) 'And the people asked Him: 'What shall we do then?'' It's from Luke, Chapter 3, verse 10. ...

...'What then must we do?' Tolstoy asked the SAME question. He wrote a book with that title! He got so upset about the poverty in Moscow that he went one night into the poorest section and just gave away all his money. But then he concluded that it didn't do any good. It was just a drop in the ocean.

I disagree. I support the view that you just don't think about the major issues. You do whatever you can about the misery that's in front of you. Add your light to the sum of light."


(Talking about a poor woman he has been trying to help) "I can't make her understand that the canal which she and her son bathe in and drink from carries disease. In another country she would be a decent woman. Here she begs, and perhaps sells herself. Her tragedy is repeated a million times in this city. 'What then must we do?' ......... 'We must give love to whomever God has placed in our path' "