We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.