We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action.

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

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

The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.