• Love is doing small things with great love.
• Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
• 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.
• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
• There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
• The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.
• In the West there is loneliness, which I call the leprosy of the West. In many ways it is worse than our poor in Calcutta. (Commonweal, Dec 19, 1997)
• It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
• The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. and they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.
• I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
• I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.
• The silence is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The tongue moves in prayer but does not speak. [letter, 1979]
• 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.
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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