We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

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.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God