As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.