I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

God hasn’t called us to be successful, just faithful.

I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

Joy is strength.

It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on the sexual life when delivered by those who have shunned it. Given the way that the...

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.

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The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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...

Jangan mencari yang besar-besar, cukup mengerjakan yang kecil-kecil dengan cinta yang besar. Makin kecil yang kita hadapi harus makin besar cinta yang kita berikan

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one’s self.To mind one’s own business.Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To...

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because...

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

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.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Work without love is slavery.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the...

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance....

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand...

The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one… That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your...

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.