To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.
If I’d never have picked up the first person, I’d never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.
When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them.
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
The fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace, and peace begins with a smile.
I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.
I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.
Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.
Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier and it will come naturally.
To choose always the hardest.
Suffering will come, trouble will come – that’s part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
Just show up and things will happen.
Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.