We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

If you pray more you will pray better.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.