Great Throughts Treasury

"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."

"We will never know all the good a simple smile may be able to do."

"We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope."

"What greater love is there than God's love for each one of us? His love isn't a fantasy. It is real."

"What have we got that we have not received? asks St. Paul. If I have received everything, what good have I of my own? If we are convinced of this we will never raise our head in pride. If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

"What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."

"What is important is that we are able to smile at one another in our families. With a generous and cheerful smile, we should be able to accept everything that happens, both the joyful things and the sad things."

"What is our spiritual life? A love union in which the divine and the human give themselves completely to one another."

"What the poor need most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being."

"What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us."

"What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things."

"When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, ?What can we do to promote world peace? ?She answered ?Go home and love your family.?"

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

"When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia."

"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."

"When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the check post whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books."

"When you don't have anything, then you have everything."

"When life is most demanding and you give cheerfully in spite of that, that is love at its best."

"When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again."

"When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love."

"When suffering comes to us, we should accept it with a smile, because it is the greatest gift that God gives us. It is a gift to have the courage to accept everything that He sends us."

"Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefor, who are we to condemn anybody?"

"When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread."

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

"With God, nothing is impossible."

"Work without love is slavery."

"Would that we could be so convinced of this necessity of silence! I think then the road to close union with God would become very clear."

"Why can't there be love that never gets tired?"

"Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart."

"Zeal for souls is the effect and the proof of true love of God. We cannot but be consumed with the desire for saving souls? zeal is the test of love and the test of zeal is devotedness to His cause--spending life and energy in the work of souls."

"You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing."

"You can and you must expect suffering."

"You can do what I can't do. I can do what you can't do. Together we can do something beautiful for God."

"You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty."

"You must try to bring the presence of God to your families. I think that just being together and loving one another brings peace and joy and strengthens the bond between family members in the home. That is the way to overcome all the evil that is in the world."

"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 may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery."

"Your service must come from a heart filled with God. This is not impossible. It is possible with the one who can do everything. Without him, we can do nothing."