Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.