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"Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus."
"There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer."
"Small things done with great love will change the world."
"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity."
"A life not lived for others is not a life."
"Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily."
"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen."
"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
"Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy."
"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
"God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things."
"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary."
"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."
"You are greater than you know."
"Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are."
"To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
"When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed."
"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men."
"Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers."