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"Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it."
"Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me."
"If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!"
"I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich."
"Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God."
"On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life."
"She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh."
"Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all."
"Give people not only your care, but also your heart."
"You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy."
"I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception, created in the image of God to love and be loved. Let us pray that nobody will be afraid to protect that little child, to help that little child to be born. Jesus said: 'If you receive a little child in my name, you receive me.'"
"You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love."
"You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us."
"If you can't feed 100 just feed ONE."
"Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer."
"What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God."
"Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved."
"You can and you must expect suffering."
"I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person."
"Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand."