If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them

The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own

God loves me. I’m not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism

Although she be but little, she is fierce

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are

Together we can do great things.

You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.

We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.

We cannot give what we have not got

One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown.