If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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 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.
Words which do not give the light of christ increase the darkness.
each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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.
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.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.