What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.

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

O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!

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

The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'

Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.