The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.