Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

It takes a checkbook to change the world

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.