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.

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.

Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

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