"I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me."
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"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 we could use."
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"People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway."
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"If I look at the mass I will never act."
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"Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration."
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"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand."
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"Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love."
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"In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence."
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"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."
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"God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it."
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"Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing."
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"Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"
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"Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world."
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"Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it."
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"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."
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"Never be so busy as not to think of others."
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"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease."
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"Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer."
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"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."
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"Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile."
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