Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.
The great enemy of morality is indifference.
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don’t live in a world all of your own.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.
Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.