Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.

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