If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.