Live simply so that others may simply live.
The world is full of good people, if you cant find one, be one.
Let us meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
We need to find God and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature, trees, flowers and grass all grow in silence. See the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own home to remedy this kind of poverty.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Be faithful in the small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Spread love everywhere, let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Joy is a prayer, joy is strength, joy is love, joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is but a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop.
If you cannot feed a hundred people, feed just one.
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.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Being unwanted, unloved uncared for and forgotten i think is a much greater hunger than a person who has nothing to eat.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.
If you do something out of duty it will deplete you, if you do something out of love it will energize you.
Intense love does not measure it just gives.
If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Let us not be satisfied with giving money. Money is not enough. Money can be got but they need your heart to love them. So spread your love everywhere you go.
One of the greatest diseases of the body is to be nobody to anybody.
I try to give to the poor for love what the rich can get for money. No i wont touch a leper for £1,000 but i would willingly cure him for the love of God.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation, our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being wanted, for being cared for. for having someone to call their own.
Words that do not increase the light increase the darkness.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when i see waste. When i see people throwing away things that we could use.
If you are kind people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives:Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people may try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness they may be jealous of you. Be happy anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have: Give your best anyway. For you see in the end it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now i know that prayer changes us and we change things.
Some people come into our lives as blessings, some people come into our lives as lessons.
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we make, how many things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, i was naked and you clothed me, i was homeless and you took me in".
Your true character is accurately measured by how you treat those who can do nothing for you.
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream realize it.
If you want to change the world go home and love your family.
I don't do great things i do small things with great love.
Yesterday is gone, Tomorrow is not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
The beginning of prayer is silence, if we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God, to listen to God and only then from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our hearts.
Speak tenderly , let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile, don't only give your care but your heart as well.
I can do things that you cannot, you can do things that i cannot, together we can do great things.
God does not create poverty, we do, because we do not share.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
There is no key to happiness, the door is always open.
Never worry about numbers, help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.