A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

Look at the cross and you will know what one soul means to Jesus.