Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.