Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word.
A smile is the beginning of peace.
Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy!
God didn’t call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.
Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.
There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.
The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.
You can pray while you work. Work doesn’t stop prayer and prayer doesn’t stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.
The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.
Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
It is not enough for us to say: “I love God,” but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that you are a liar if you say you love God and you don’t love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live?
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.
In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.
At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.
It takes a checkbook to change the world.
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.