"Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that you in your turn, may give of your abundance. Seek Him. Knowledge will make you strong as death. Love Him trustfully without looking back, without fear. Believe that Jesus and Jesus alone is life. Serve Jesus, casting aside and forgetting all that troubles or worries you, make loved the love that is not loved."

"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."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"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."

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

"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."

"Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?"

"Peace begins with a smile."

"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."

"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."

"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."

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

"Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love."

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."

"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."

"Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

"The Simple Path, Silence is Prayer, Prayer is Faith, Faith is Love, Love is Service, The Fruit of Service is Peace."

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

"Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together."

"God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful."

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

"If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"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."

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

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

"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."

"When you judge someone you have no time to love them."

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

"We can do no great things-only small things with great love."

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

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

"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things."

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

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

"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 pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest."

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."

"I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn't expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love."

"Never be so busy as not to think of others."

"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 you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?"

"If I look at the mass I will never act."

"The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love."

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

"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."

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

"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."

"It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love."

"Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."

"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 has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community."

"He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness."