If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

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.

The first step to becoming is to will it.

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.