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Quotes by Albanian Authors
"Never be so busy as not to think of others."
"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."
"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."
"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."
"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."
"There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
"When you judge someone you have no time to love them."
"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."
"If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"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."
"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."
"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."
"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."
"Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love."
"God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful."
"He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness."
"Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
"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?"
"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."
"If I look at the mass I will never act."
"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?"
"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
"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."
"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."
"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
"Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person."
"In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"If you judge people you have no time to love them."
"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."
"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?"
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