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.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that...

If I look at the mass I will never act.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have...

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in...

Give, but give until it hurts.

If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let no one ever come...

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

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.