"The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the
unloved they are Jesus in disguise."
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only
today. Let us begin."
"Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a
great thing."
"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 we put
in the giving."
"Nakedness is not only for a piece of clothing; nakedness is lack of human dignity, and also that beautiful virtue of purity, and lack of that respect for each other."
"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them."
"Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart."
"Speak tenderly to them. 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 give your heart as well."
"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 a mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."
"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."
"Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."
"There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a
better Catholic."
"If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive."
"It is a poverty to decide that an unborn child must die so that you may live as you like."
"If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love If we love, we will serve."
"We can do no great things; only small things with great love."
"You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing.
Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little
child, you receive me. Clear."
"Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
"Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love,give them peace and joy."
"I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order. I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them."
"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed."
"Calcutta can be found all over the world if you have eyes to see."
"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."
"It's we who, with our exclusion and rejecting, push our brothers and sisters to find refuge in alcohol and become drunks. They drink to forget the deprivation of their lives."
"You will be surprised to know that in the poorest neighborhoods in many of the cities where we live and work, when we get close to the people who live in shacks, the first thing they ask for is not bread or clothes, even though often they are dying of hunger and are naked. They ask us to teach them the Word of God. People are hungry for God. They long to hear his Word."
"God loves a cheerful giver. She or he gives best who gives with a smile."
"But never lose heart. We always -- thank God...can smile. At least you can smile if nothing else."
"Speak tenderly to them. 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 give your heart as well."
