The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

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.