"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

"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."

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

"It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing."

"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 no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty."

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."

"Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife."

"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."

"We are all pencils in the hand of God."

"Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"

"Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never."

"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."

"Joy is strength."

"We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?"

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."

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

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

"We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him - not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything - to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation."

"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 his love than in your weakness."

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

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

"In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence."

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

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

"I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus."

"Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person."

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

"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, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

"How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers."

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

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

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."