I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

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.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.

We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess