Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
Holiness is doing God’s will with a smile.
Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
Life is beauty, admire it!
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.
Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures.
I don’t think there is anyone who needs God’s help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.
If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
The first step to becoming is to will it.
Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.
If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.