Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

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.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.

In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come.