May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things – to love and be loved.

When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.

We fear the future because we are wasting today.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

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.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

Work without love is slavery.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

uplifts Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does NOT determine the value of what we have done.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

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

Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you.

God made the world for the delight of human beings– if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we’ve waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us — you just can’t resist Him. I believe there’s no such thing as luck in life, it’s God’s love, it’s His.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Whenever you share love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.

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.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

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

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

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.

Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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.

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

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?

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.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Live simply so others may simply live.