Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

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.

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.