We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

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

In reality, there is only one true prayer, only one substantial prayer: Christ himself. There is only one voice which rises above the face of the earth, the voice of Christ. Prayer is oneness with Christ.

The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.