What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.