Maurin's Method

Teaching whoever would listen seemed such a haphazard business that Peter was sometimes asked why he did not have a plan.  "Our Lord had no plan," Dorothy quotes him as saying.  "He did this on the principle that you never knew where you were going to find a disciple and that there was a spark in every man that could be kindled if you could but find the proper word.  Of course you planted the seed and God gave the increase.  Everything depended on God's good pleasure, whether or not he chose to call this one or that.  But he, Peter, would go around planting his ideas hopefully, watering them with his kindness and persistence and faith and hope, and leave it in God's hands as to whether they would grow and bear fruit."--William D. Miller, Dorothy Day: A Biography, pg. 237.