"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

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

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."

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

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

"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."

"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."

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

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

"Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor."

"You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have."

"Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy."

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."

"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."

"We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope always hope."

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

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."

"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. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."

"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."

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

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."

"Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself."

"Work without love is slavery."

"Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

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

"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 instead."

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

"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."

"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."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

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

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."

"If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."

"I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it."

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."

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

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

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

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

"I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me."

"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus."

"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 joy overflows."

"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."

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."

"Give, but give until it hurts."

"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."

"Smile at each other smile at your wife smile at your husband smile at your children smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."

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