Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.