It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

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

Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.