While He rocked one of the little girls on His knee, He said calmly: "So they say I only talk and do nothing.

In their sense they are right.

I don't pray, they mean, because they don't see Me do it.

I don't fast, because we can't eat less than a little, except when we sit at a luxurious table like Martha's.

I don't give alms because My purse is empty.