Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

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.

The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.