If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.

There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.