I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.