Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.