Love – the more you share with others, the more you have.
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God’s love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Jesus loved everyone, but he loved children most of all. Today we know that unborn children are the targets of destruction. We must thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us and for taking such good care of us.
It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!
Be a living expression of God’s kindness.
We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don’t know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
How much love did you put into what you did?
Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.
You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.
Let us make that one point – that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God’s life in us, even in an unborn child.
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.
Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.
People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.
Hungry not only for bread – but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing – but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks – but homeless because of rejection.
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.