If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.