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Words which do not give the…

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

We think sometimes that poverty is…

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

We shall never know all the…

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

We ourselves feel that what we…

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

We need to find God, and…

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

There must be a reason why…

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

There is always the danger that…

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness…

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

The miracle is not that we…

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The hunger for love is much…

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.