If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.